STAND. COM. REP. NO.  314

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                , 2013

 

RE:   H.B. No. 871

 

 

 

 

Honorable Joseph M. Souki

Speaker, House of Representatives

Twenty-Seventh State Legislature

Regular Session of 2013

State of Hawaii

 

Sir:

 

     Your Committee on Human Services, to which was referred H.B. No. 871 entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT MAKING AN EMERGENCY APPROPRIATION TO THE DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES FROM THE HOSPITAL SUSTAINABILITY PROGRAM SPECIAL FUND,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose of this measure is to ensure that recipients of services from the Hospital Sustainability Program (Program) continue to receive medically necessary services and that hospitals participating in the Program continue to receive timely payments for these services by making an emergency appropriation of $43,000,000 from the Hospital Sustainability Program Special Fund to the Department of Human Services to be used consistent with the purposes of the Hospital Sustainability Program Special Fund.

 

     The Department of Human Services and Hawai'i Pacific Health testified in support of this bill.

 

     Pursuant to the requirements set forth in Article VII, Section 9, of the Hawaii State Constitution, the Governor, in his Governor's Message No. 214 to the Legislature, requested immediate consideration and passage of this bill by the Legislature.


     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Human Services that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 871 and recommends that it pass Second Reading and be referred to the Committee on Finance.

 

 

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Human Services,

 

 

 

 

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MELE CARROLL, Chair